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Simulating the Real World

Desktop PC with Integrated Toaster - the Future is Now

The convergence of technology platforms continues apace, especially in the mobile telephony world. The world of overclockers and case modders...

By Robin Bornoff

Verification Horizons

Part 2: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Design Trends (Continued) In Part 1 of this series of blogs, I focused on design trends (click here) as identified...

By Harry Foster

Embedded Software

Precise or random?

A few years ago, when my partner and I were just getting to know one another, she used to jokingly...

Verification Horizons

Part 1: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Design Trends In my previous blog, I introduced the 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study (click here). The objective of...

By Harry Foster

Verification Horizons

Prologue: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Study Overview In 2002 and 2004, Ron Collett International, Inc. conducted its well known ASIC/IC functional verification studies, which...

By Harry Foster

Embedded Software

Device registers in C

Mentor Graphics has historically been dedicated to providing tools for electronic hardware designers and that still represents a very large...

Verification Horizons

Language Transitions: The Dawning of Age of Aquarius

Wally Rhines DVCon 2011 Keynote Highlights Survey on Verification Languages OK, maybe it is not the Dawning of the Age...

By Dennis Brophy

Embedded Software

Moderate cycling on the road to Damascus

I am quite new to cycling. I had a bicycle when I was a kid, but never really got on...

Embedded Software

Share and share alike

A constant challenge I have found, when teaching or mentoring people, is to avoid making assumptions about what they know....